-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The U.S. Air Force Academy is mourning its first female graduate to be killed by enemy forces in Afghanistan or Iraq .

First Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte , 25 , graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2006 .

First Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte , 25 , died Wednesday near Kabul , Afghanistan , of wounds suffered in a roadside bomb attack .

She was an intelligence , surveillance and reconnaissance operations officer assigned to the 613th Air and Space Operations Center , the Air Force said Friday in a news release .

Schulte was deployed to Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan . She was traveling in a convoy to Bagram Airfield to participate in an intelligence sharing conference .

`` Losing Lt. Schulte has been a tragedy felt by everyone here and across the Air Force , '' said Col. Terrence O'Shaughnessy , 613th AOC commander . `` Our deepest sympathies and prayers are with the family of this heroic airman . ''

Schulte 's fellow airmen `` will be forever proud of her , '' he added .

Schulte graduated from the academy in 2006 . She is the 10th graduate to die in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan , the academy said .

Schulte 's parents live in St. Louis , Missouri . She also had a brother .

Her father told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that his daughter was a natural leader who was teaching Afghan forces how to handle military intelligence .

`` She knew how to talk to chiefs of staff , to generals , to privates , and they listened , '' Robert Schulte told the paper . `` And that 's what we needed , a great leader of people . ''

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Roadside bomb near Kabul kills 1st Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte , 25

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Schulte is first female academy graduate to die in Afghan or Iraq war

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Fellow airmen `` will be forever proud of her , '' commander says